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CVE-2026-98568

vxlan: use one headroom snapshot for neighbour replies PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vxlan: use one headroom snapshot for neighbour replies vxlan_na_create() samples LL_RESERVED_SPACE() to size the reply skb and then samples it again to reserve headroom. A concurrent vxlan_changelink() can update needed_headroom between the two reads, creating a TOCTOU race. The second value can exceed the allocation and make the Ethernet header write out of bounds. The race is reproducible on the unpatched kernel. It occurred when vxlan_na_create() generated a neighbour reply while vxlan_changelink() changed the link headroom. KASAN caught a four-byte write two bytes beyond a 704-byte skbuff_small_head allocation. Snapshot the headroom once and use that value for both allocation and reservation.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 4b29dba9c085a4fb79058fb1c45a2f6257ca3dfa before 45a67662bf8ce3aa5643accf98d328dfbb47eaf6; affected 4b29dba9c085a4fb79058fb1c45a2f6257ca3dfa before 315d42ca39f69846662961c25dcf2bb07c350d14; affected 4b29dba9c085a4fb79058fb1c45a2f6257ca3dfa before a3c5eb6e382dd426a5e7eb08608897ed57167ff7; affected 4b29dba9c085a4fb79058fb1c45a2f6257ca3dfa before ff022fd9d0f0282c575e11778b96bd1b637503eb; affected 4b29dba9c085a4fb79058fb1c45a2f6257ca3dfa before 481506a756dcd828ef42391cb08f38d8d96d38fc; affected d8be18c52dbc94989f6d74637b731af39cd3d902; affected 3927dace523706cc00f808520eaf2125dd7c07b5; affected 3.12.18 before 3.13; affected 3.13.10 before 3.14
Linux / Linuxaffected 3.14; unaffected 0 before 3.14; unaffected 6.6.158 through 6.6.*; unaffected 6.12.112 through 6.12.*; unaffected 6.18.55 through 6.18.*; unaffected 7.2.9 through 7.2.*; unaffected 7.3 through *

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

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